Quotes About Time

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.

This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

It's weird to think the place where we're standing will only be a point in the sky.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should have been paying attention. Well get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel like someday.

It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you're changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead.

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. Long-term or short-term? she asks. Both. Long-term, she says, we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after. Really? Really, she says. So don't sweat it.

Listen up. Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.' Sometimes Rant said, 'You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.' If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: 'The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.

I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

No matter what happens, it's always now.

This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

If you ask me, people in hell just scream to hear their own voice and to pass time.